Mad School of Brown University
“I have filtered out several hundreds biomedical research articles from Brown containing the words “western blot” in the text, and found out the usual, unavoidable ocean of manipulated data.” – Corrado Viotti
Tag: Csaba Szabó
The Fribourg Declaration
“The papermill crisis is not an external attack on science but a mirror held up to its dysfunctional ecosystem. The for-profit publishing industry, posing as a newly found saviour of research integrity, is in fact its chief beneficiary and enabler.” – Csaba Szabo
A Sting Inside a Papermill
“It’s clear that any academically corrupt individual — particularly one with editorial connections — could easily “place” dozens of these Anzen products into indexed journals and collect a handsome side income in the process.” – Csaba Szabo
FAIRS: Frustrating Attempts at Integrity Reform in Science
“yes, let’s clean up the literature, but I think it is immensely more important to catch the “big fish”” – Csaba Szabo
“Doctored” by Charles Piller – book review
“If this book accomplishes anything, it should be to shatter the illusion that Alzheimer’s research is on solid footing and to prompt a long-overdue reckoning in the field. ” – Csaba Szabo
“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
Csaba Szabo’s book “Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research” – review by Zoltan Ungvari and excerpt.
Schneider Shorts 7.07.2023 – No Action Required
Schneider Shorts 7.07.2023 – MDPI internal file leaked, editors attempting to rat out whistleblowers, scientists proud of IAAM awards, Nobelitis strikes again, with cloning fraudster’s new business, biotech’s new anti-aging drug, bad rector in Sicily, and finally, one honest researcher demanding retraction of his own paper.
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